A fairly simple couple of questions that every single gamer should be able to answer. As a part of the video game community for over 20 years, I have seen a large number of consoles come and go. What I would like to know in this thread is....
What was your favorite video game console of all time, why?
What about your least favorite, and what did you not like about it?
Preferably ones that you have owned, so that we don't get everyone and their dog coming in to complain about the Virtual Boy or the Wonderswan. I'd like you to limit it to the consoles you personally have owned, but you may elaborate outside of that if you wish. I myself have owned an NES, Game Boy, SNES, Game Gear, Genesis, Game Boy Color, Nintendo 64, Playstation, Gamecube, Game Boy Advance, Playstation 2, Wii, DS, and Xbox 360.
I've played games on basically every system that has been released, whether it be one I owned or at a friend's. My favorite will always be the SNES. It had what was in my opinion the perfect blend of great graphics (for the 1990's anyway), great music, and great gameplay in the vast majority of its games. Older systems such as the NES were lower in quality, while newer consoles in my opinion place FAR too much emphasis on graphics, or in the Wii's case too much emphasis on the controls. As for my least favorite? Out of the one's I've owned it was the Sega Game Gear due to how annoying it was to constantly have to change batteries in that thing. It was meant to be played anywhere like the Game Boy but the low battery life led me to have to plug it in with a charger each time I wanted to play Sonic, etc.
How about you guys?
What was your favorite video game console of all time, why?
What about your least favorite, and what did you not like about it?
Preferably ones that you have owned, so that we don't get everyone and their dog coming in to complain about the Virtual Boy or the Wonderswan. I'd like you to limit it to the consoles you personally have owned, but you may elaborate outside of that if you wish. I myself have owned an NES, Game Boy, SNES, Game Gear, Genesis, Game Boy Color, Nintendo 64, Playstation, Gamecube, Game Boy Advance, Playstation 2, Wii, DS, and Xbox 360.
I've played games on basically every system that has been released, whether it be one I owned or at a friend's. My favorite will always be the SNES. It had what was in my opinion the perfect blend of great graphics (for the 1990's anyway), great music, and great gameplay in the vast majority of its games. Older systems such as the NES were lower in quality, while newer consoles in my opinion place FAR too much emphasis on graphics, or in the Wii's case too much emphasis on the controls. As for my least favorite? Out of the one's I've owned it was the Sega Game Gear due to how annoying it was to constantly have to change batteries in that thing. It was meant to be played anywhere like the Game Boy but the low battery life led me to have to plug it in with a charger each time I wanted to play Sonic, etc.
How about you guys?